Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
'Creating Art' - Conceptual Board Game
Before my studies with the Manchester School of Architecture, I applied for the Art Foundation Course with Manchester Metropolitan. I was set a project prior to the interview, which was to develop a concept for a board game. My idea was a paint as you play concept; squares the player would land on corresponded to a certain painting technique, choice of media etc. The main idea was for the player to learn about art/design throughout the game, and at the end to have produced a unique piece of art!
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Rotterdam Intervention - Jacob Tassaker & co
The Original Schouwberplein Intervention:
The Schouwberplein (12.250 square metres) is situated in the heart of the city of Rotterdam and is surrounded by shops and flanked by the City Theatre and the City Concert Hall. The design emphasizes the importance of a void, which opens a panorama towards the city skyline.
The square is designed as an interactive public space, flexible in use, and changing during day and seasons. Its appearance is a reflection of the Port of Rotterdam.
One of the major features of the square are the four hydraulic lighting elements that can be interactively altered by the inhabitants of the city.
Our Intervention:
After the restrictions on the movement of the hydraulic cranes and the removal of the interactive light from the Schouwberplein, we decided to try and re-produce and create our own public interaction. Again using light we set out to produce a series of interactive lights placed within the square. The lights would be positioned strategically in line with the cranes used in the previous intervention. Beside the lights we marked specific images and words, which the user would react to in various manners depending on the image or words shown.
The Schouwberplein (12.250 square metres) is situated in the heart of the city of Rotterdam and is surrounded by shops and flanked by the City Theatre and the City Concert Hall. The design emphasizes the importance of a void, which opens a panorama towards the city skyline.
The square is designed as an interactive public space, flexible in use, and changing during day and seasons. Its appearance is a reflection of the Port of Rotterdam.
One of the major features of the square are the four hydraulic lighting elements that can be interactively altered by the inhabitants of the city.
Our Intervention:
After the restrictions on the movement of the hydraulic cranes and the removal of the interactive light from the Schouwberplein, we decided to try and re-produce and create our own public interaction. Again using light we set out to produce a series of interactive lights placed within the square. The lights would be positioned strategically in line with the cranes used in the previous intervention. Beside the lights we marked specific images and words, which the user would react to in various manners depending on the image or words shown.
Manchester Intervention
Oxford Road train station and its surrounding context generates a high level of noise. Sounds from the pubs and clubs of the area combine with noises produced by Oxford Road and the train station, impacting largely on the site for the intervention. Individuals who use the site may have acquired a hearing to this sound, not noticing the noise as much as someone who is visiting the space for the first time.
Noise affects people differently and can manipulate an individuals movement from one place to another. The effect of noise changes from day to night, a sound can become much more intense the later it gets.
Noise affects people differently and can manipulate an individuals movement from one place to another. The effect of noise changes from day to night, a sound can become much more intense the later it gets.
The design for the intervention involves Hollow steel tubes that cantilever from the wall of the railway bridge, intersecting with similar tubes rooted into the ground of the site. When a train passes, vibrations of the viaduct will travel through the cantilevered tubes causing them to vibrate together. This will create various sounds.
For some people, passing under this noisy canopy may become an interesting and even eventful part of their journey. Others may find the noise uncomfortable, changing their movement to escape or avoid the intervention.
'Chatham Skin'
The concept for the new skin of the Chatham building (MSA) is a folding panel system that encompasses the whole facade. The design of the system increases views over Manchester, allows for a flexibility of space and enables a control on climatic issues. The character of the facade is seen as ever-changing, each occupant modifies a space to suit their requirements.
The system is similar to that of the ‘Carabanchel House’ in Madrid, Spain by Foreign Office Architects. The panels act as louvres, open or shut to regulate the amount of daylight entering, and allow for a control on natural ventilation and heat loss. The system is fitted onto 1.5m terraces, which wrap around the levels of Chatham, merging the interior with the exterior.
The panels incorporated into the folding system are triple glazed, similar to those found on David Chipperfield’s ‘Des Moines public library’. Light is diffused through a steel mesh within the exterior leaf of the panel whilst heat is reflected. This results in the face reflecting the most light appearing as a solid steel panel, whereas the other side is transparent.
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| Carabanchel House |
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| In the day Chatham appears to be clad in steel panels, viewed as a solid and heavy mass. At night it itransformed into a beacon of light, illuminating its surroundings |
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| Des Moines public library |
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